Re: "In his Nicomachean Ethics, [Aristotle] rejected that scientific knowledge alone could determine the affairs of the human social world, which he recognized as too complex and unpredictable to govern with certainty."

From	John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: "In his Nicomachean Ethics, [Aristotle] rejected that scientific knowledge alone could determine the affairs of the human social world, which he recognized as too complex and unpredictable to govern with certainty."
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Date	2015-07-11 11:34 -0400

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On 2015-07-11 09:56:02 +0000, Ed Cryer said:

> ggggg9271@gmail.com wrote:
>> https://hbr.org/2015/06/build-stem-skills-but-dont-neglect-the-humanities
>> 
> 
> Wittgenstein said that when science was complete we'd still have the 
> problems of life itself.
> I think everybody understands that.
> 
> As for Aristotle and science, it's quite staggering how much he got wrong.

Pioneers usually get a lot wrong. Copernicus and Galileo were almost 
completely wrong except for one key idea. (The same is true of Lamarck, 
but instead of getting a free pass on what he got wrong, he is usually 
robbed of the credit for what he got right.)

-- 
John W Kennedy
"When a man contemplates forcing his own convictions down another man's 
throat, he is contemplating both an unchristian act and an act of 
treason to the United States."
  -- Joy Davidman, "Smoke on the Mountain"

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"In his Nicomachean Ethics, [Aristotle] rejected that scientific knowledge alone could determine the affairs of the human social world, which he recognized as too complex and unpredictable to govern with certainty." ggggg9271@gmail.com - 2015-07-11 02:23 -0700
  Re: "In his Nicomachean Ethics, [Aristotle] rejected that scientific knowledge alone could determine the affairs of the human social world, which he recognized as too complex and unpredictable to govern with certainty." Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2015-07-11 10:56 +0100
    Re: "In his Nicomachean Ethics, [Aristotle] rejected that scientific knowledge alone could determine the affairs of the human social world, which he recognized as too complex and unpredictable to govern with certainty." John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 11:34 -0400

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